Rap musician-TV host-actor Francis Magalona has been diagnosed with leukemia and is undergoing more tests.

A son of the popular 1950s movie tandem Pancho Magalona and Tita Duran, the 43-year-old father of eight children is appealing for sobriety as he prepares to fight the disease. “I don’t want a media circus. I want privacy with my family,” Francis said in a phone interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer as he waited for his attending doctor. “What I’d rather talk about is how to we can solicit blood donations to replace the supply that I have consumed in the hospital.”

Francis’ wife, Pia Arroyo-Magalona, said her husband started exhibiting symptoms in March this year. “It was very gradual, hindi siya biglaang lumabas [it didn’t manifest right away]. We don’t want to use the word ‘curable,’ but the doctors say it’s treatable.”

Pressed for more details, Magalona said that he will issue a formal statement Thursday (Aug. 14) on the noontime variety TV show “Eat Bulaga” where he is a regular host.

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More than 1,000 dancers from 33 countries gathered in Las Vegas in quest for the gold. The All Stars, however, ruled the dance floor with their two-minute performance packed with flips and steps in harmony. The dancers went off stage with high hopes of winning after finishing a near perfect dance.

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Through his desire to give listeners a fresh kind of music, he creatively entwined different music genres like techno, hip-hop and R&B in his songs.

“The album is called ‘Soundtrip’ because it is actually a mixture of different genres. So it’s a very unique sound. So I called it ‘Soundtrip’ because you’re going to have a trip over the sound,” the newest R&B singer said.

The album features seven tracks: “Don’t Need to Know,” “At Your Service,” “Dance Floor” featuring Klumcee, “You Were Meant For Me,” “I Wanna Be With You” featuring Hi-C, “Shake That Thing” featuring Beatmonx, and “Stop It”.

All the songs, he said, are about love, friendship and heartaches.

Since he was young, Dannieboi said music has been part of his life and it is the thing that he cannot live without.

He said he loves to explore every genre of music.

He described his music as eclectic and experimental.

Although Dannieboi already released a self-titled album last April 2007, he considered “Soundtrip” as his official debut album in the country.

“I produced my first album independently and it was distributed by Synergy. I don’t really consider that as an album. Although, I did that seriously also, I wrote all my songs, but it was like something I made to get somebody else’s attention,” he said.

Dannieboi has recently signed a three-year contract with Viva Records.

Now that he released his album under a major music label, he is confident “of pushing OPM to be more popular in an R&B genre.”

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Young singer Charice revealed that she had a meeting with popular US rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs formerly known as “Puff Daddy” in New York. Initially, their meeting was set for April 24th, but it was cancelled.

In an exclusive interview with abs-cbnNEWS.com, Charice shared that she was so thrilled and happy to meet the rap star. She met Combs on May 12th, days after she performed in Hawaii for ABS-CBN’s noontime show “Wowowee.”

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